Poetic Meter and Poetic FormHelps aspiring readers enlarge their sensitivity to the rhythmical and formal dimensions of poetry. |
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... verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line - that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive caesura placement ...
... verse the caesura is used in a fairly predictable way . It is only with the development in English of the staple iambic pentameter line - that ubiquitous and apparently per- manent vehicle - that varied and expressive caesura placement ...
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... verse , the syllabic alexandrine : Trois fois cinquante jours || le général naufrage Dégasta l'univers ; || et fin d'un tel ravage ( Du Bartas , “ La Première Semaine ” ) It appears as a formalizing device in English blank verse of the ...
... verse , the syllabic alexandrine : Trois fois cinquante jours || le général naufrage Dégasta l'univers ; || et fin d'un tel ravage ( Du Bartas , “ La Première Semaine ” ) It appears as a formalizing device in English blank verse of the ...
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... verse conceived in a tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already chosen to eschew one of the most basic expressive ...
... verse conceived in a tradition of more or less regular base rhythm : we can have no variations in entirely " free " or " cadenced " verse . The poet working in free verse has already chosen to eschew one of the most basic expressive ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 20 |
Metrical Variations | 36 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic action actual aesthetic anapestic beginning blank verse caesura century classical conventions Copyright critical device effect elements Eliot emotional emphasis English poetry English verse enjambment example experience expressive Faber feet fixed forms foot formal heroic couplet iambic pentameter illusion imply initial trochee irony kind language logical meaning medial caesura ment meter metrical variations metrist musical nature number of syllables octave Old English organization Paradise Lost pattern perhaps permission Petrarchan sonnet poem poet's Pope position principle prose prosodic pyrrhic quatrain reader regularity reinforce rhetorical rhyme scheme rhythmical Sapphic Sapphic stanza scansion seems sense sestet Shakespearean shape song sort sound Spenserian spondaic spondaic substitution spondee sprung rhythm stanza stanzaic form stichic stress strophic structure suggest technical technique tends tercet terminal trochee texture thing Thom Gunn thou tion tradition triplet trisyllabic trochee turn unstressed syllables versification W. H. Auden white space William words Wordsworth's Yeats